As a journalist and blogger, I know the best way to get someone to follow you on Twitter or Facebook is to curate great content. Whether it’s sharing an interesting news article, infographic or white paper, I know people will not only follow me but share my tweets and posts – and comment on my LinkedIn posts – if they contain relevant information. In fact, whenever I sit down to update my own Twitter and Facebook feeds, I first spend time looking around for content.

The U.S. Secret Service this month put out a request for social media analytics software that could help it identify social media influencers and trends. The RFP, which can be downloaded here, included a laundry list of requirements such as the capability to detect historical Twitter data as well as the “ability to detect sarcasm and false positives.” Another item on the wish list: The ability to “create custom reports without involving IT specialists.”

How are you measuring your social media success? If your organization is like most, you’re tracking how many likes and retweets you get and watching the overall growth of your social audience. While this data is solid and may help to inform if you’re doing the right kind of lead capture, it doesn’t tell the whole story, according to David Dubois, assistant professor of marketing at graduate business school INSEAD.

The Media Rating Council (MRC) on March 31 announced it had lifted its advisory on Viewable Impressions for display advertising, part of its Viewable Impressions Guidelines draft. This move is part of a larger Making Measurement Make Sense (3MS) initiative founded by the American Association of Advertising Agencies, the Association of National Advertisers, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau. For its part, the MRC is responsible for setting and implementing measurement standards.